Podcast: The Ride - The Novel Coronahiatus

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

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Forever Dog Welcome to a quick little check-in podcast, The Ride. I'm Scott Gardner, although from the last time we zoomed, my name still says Bad Bad Scott Brown, which was due to the Jelly Rolls episode. But I assure you, Gairdner, I'm going to stick with that. In another window is Mike Carlson. Hello, I'm here.

It says Michael. I don't think I had a fun name, but I don't know. Well, it was too serious for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was not for goofs. Jason Sheridan. I don't want to mock it. Yeah.

Mine always says Jason just because I love clarity. Well, good. Appreciate that. And I think you were very clear with your introduction now. And I want to be very clear. Let's have the utmost clarity in what is happening and why you're listening to this right now. We were supposed to, by the skin of our teeth, get an episode out this week. One of these, as long as we record on Thursday,

And as long as absolutely nothing goes wrong, then we will be fine and we will have an episode out. But then what ended up happening, Mike? Well, to borrow a classic Jason Sheridanism from Podcast the Ride, I caught the novel coronavirus. The novel coronavirus. The novel coronavirus, as he always says. He puts a little mustard on it when he says it. And I'm stealing it. It's all about the the is, I think, big.

get that's part of the wind-up. Yeah. And thus I can no longer get hammered. Yes. So I had too much fun, I guess, Comic-Con weekend, long Comic-Con weekend. And I was punished by God for that, I suppose. I don't know.

I don't know why he has it in for me. Maybe he just doesn't like it when I'm going to too many activations or seeing too many new toy prototypes. Who knows? You flew too close to the sun As you do every single year When you have an even better Comic-Con than the year before

It seems like it's just been an upward And upward trajectory And you needed to get kicked down Although didn't you all Didn't you get COVID at a different Comic-Con No, no The only other time I've had it is when we went to New York In 2022

Okay, okay So I'm only in a two-timers club at this point I have not Some people have had it like every year And I've been lucky So this year we have had one Comic-Con from Orlando, or one COVID from Orlando, one COVID from Comic-Con. The two places where you are most likely to get COVID.

This is, I know, this is a debate. Why is Florida? So, I don't know why you blame Florida. COVID is everywhere. You can get COVID in any, any part of this wonderful world of ours. Oh, I mostly meant crowds. The crowds are so intense at those places. There are crowds where we went there.

Yes, yeah, yeah. I just, but I didn't, I was, I was wondering if Mike would end up blaming the state in this case. California, here we come to a positive test, I guess. Well, I mean, also, historically, Florida's response to COVID was extra psycho than anywhere else. Well, that's. That's the same. I want to say I don't approve of any of the actions of the governor of

Comic-Con. I think he's been very laxed on all of this. I'm the governor of Comic-Con. Well, yeah. That's what I'm saying. I know. I think you were not, you did not act when you needed to act. I were, Jason's the mayor of Disneyland.

I'm the governor of Comic-Con and I put a big sash on and a big top hat and walk around. Kiss too many babies. Yes, too many avatar babies that were dressed up in cosplay. Well, no. Those were fake. Those were those hyper-realistic dolls. Those weren't real. Okay.

Well, I was fooled then. Well, and too much, you know, like, I just, hey, just to say, I appreciate the limited edition Ninja Turtle figures that you created, can I kiss you with tongue? That happened to a, with me and a couple different people. I will say, that type of interaction. I didn't kiss anyone, but I, I gushed. You would say, Griffin Newman was with me a lot of the time, so he can. a test to this that I was a lot of gushing going on.

The volume of, yeah, I guess, well, geez, when you're gushing, I don't know, I guess gushing is a fast path to super spreading. I guess so. It's step one. I guess so. But you know, but here's the long story short, we were supposed to be recording with a guest right now who is a fun guest and who I'd rather do in person. I think we'd all rather, we didn't want to do some Zoom with this guy.

so we kind of let's we talked about it and we're going to just rejigger our schedule a little bit we tend to take one or two weeks off for the summer we usually do that around labor day but given the circumstances we're just going to do it early we're going to take this week off other than this little a quick bit of blathering possibly next we'll see where things go we do have fun stuff lining up and great guests coming up on the horizon we just ended up you know sometimes the cupboard ends up bare that's what happened sometimes you look in that cupboard and you go oh my god we forgot to shop for episodes this week right jason somebody didn't fill out the short chart jason can you give us a cupboard update from your apartments is there anything fresh in that

cupboard well uh i just finished the lays all dressed chips they're back uh back from canada what are they again oh they they're to explain you know if if mike doesn't know it Lays all dressed is like all flavor. So it's salt and vinegar and barbecue. I think there's a little ketchup. Yeah, it's kind of an everything chip. And they're delicious. And now they even have on the back of the bag,

it says Canada's favorite. So I got those. I have been eating a lot of apples. But I've also had a fair share of Selena Gomez Oreos. So, you know. Oh, geez. Now, I would say, again, what are those? But I think it kind of explains itself in the title.

I just was not aware of the brand. I knew those. Chocolate cinnamon. Chocolate, chocolate cream with a hint of cinnamon. Do you eat an apple? Jason, do you eat an apple a day? And do you kind of shine it against your shirt before you eat it? Well, we got one of those apple slicers.

So you eat the slices. I eat the slices, which I think is the most. satisfying way. You don't think taking a big, nice chunk out of the apple is satisfying? No, I feel like the skin cuts up my gums when I do that. The skin cuts your gut. How does that happen, Jason? I have very sensitive gums.

They, like, slice, like, like, bleeding? No, no, not that slices. No, I'm saying. I just don't know how the verb slice. I don't know how it slices. I got to watch that cinnamon, too. Terrible for the gum cinnamon. we're learning so much about gum sensitivity today

you know this is a short runtime but i knew we could get a couple gems here and i think we've stumbled upon them is that your goals are so sensitive that jason's gum sensitivity is a whole new bit of mythology well probably from all that fucking sugar i keep trying to scale back on the mixed results you think the sugar has weakened your gums it does what's your flossing like oh very random i'm not not a big flosser guy. That's what it is then. You got to do it every day because then your gums won't bleed. And I go on and off. I'm not saying I'm, I'm no prince when it comes to flossing. I go on it off. But you got to do it every day. If your gums are bleeding when you eat an apple.

For you, no, they're not bleeding. They're just, it's just like a little, uh, uncomfortable. Just a little, a little bit, a little bad tickle. Do you have a little tickle where you say stop. Stop. I've got some threaders in the house. The threaders are, or the things, already sort of pre-made are so easy to floss, especially I have these retainer in the back of my teeth, which makes it like I have to thread it through, which is annoying. But when you just have those threads, oh my gosh, it's so easy. You got to do it. Is that a permanent retainer? Do you take it in now? Oh. And I think I want to get it out. I think I want to get it out. But that's a whole another story for a different podcast. Well, if we just, if we want to change the plan and make this a full

length episode called threaders slash retainers we could shift the plan right here and now oh yeah that's well okay i'll tell you this one of mine fell out but anyway go ahead i i've used an electric toothbrush for years and a number of times when i've been to the dentist are like oh good flossing and i hadn't flossed at all it was just like a good electric toothbrush i guess what if one of them listens you could be in trouble now. Yeah, you're in trouble. I think I'm more in trouble because I haven't been there in a few years.

So. Oh, no. Jason. What? Oh, gosh. I got to dry. I got to, you know what?

I'm putting a mask on. I'm getting in the car and we're going to the dentist right now with you. Oh. That's a, you got to go. You got to go every six months. It is centrally located in Burbank. You're going to breathe your novel coronavirus right into his sensitive guns.

He's fine. He just had it. They're going to start shipping him up. like an apple. He just had it like six weeks ago. He's fine. He's got the antibodies. He's super immune. He's fine. It'd be a problem for me, though my gums are of normal sensitivity. Well, yeah, we don't even have time to get into what your gum situation is. I don't know. No, gosh, I would love to describe my gums at length, but I think we're going to move on to other business. So that's the plan. We're going to do

a little early summer break. If you want new stuff, there will be new stuff on the second gate. We're going to hear about Mike's Comic-Con adventures. We're going to try to pinpoint where the COVID was contracted. Was it near the sign for Alec Baldwin's forthcoming signing? Or was it at the All-American Rejects concert? I don't know. Well, one of them was outside. I'll say that. But there were a lot of people at one of them, too. So I'll keep those mystery of which one I'm talking about? Which ones I'm talking about? There's a cliffhanger. I mean, I assume that you'll hear that on Wednesday. I've got a birthday shot coming up. You'll hear that soon. It seems like over on Club 3 that Mike's Bozo dreams are coming true unless things take a major turn in the next

couple days. So, you know, if that doesn't, look, Alec Baldwin, the general notion of my birthday. And Bozo the Clown, if that doesn't get you over the Patreon, I don't know how else to do it. Sign up, please. Please do that. That's a patreon.com slash podcast, the ride. New things will be coming there. For the next few weeks, we'll be back on the main feed in the near future with good stuff, I promise. So thanks for listening, and hopefully we'll be talking to you, you know, in a freeway soon, a free, not on a free way, in a free method.

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